D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (right) watches as Ted Leonsis announces plans to build a sports arena at St. Elizabeths campus in Ward 8 during a 2015 press conference. (Courtesy photo)
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (right) watches as Ted Leonsis announces plans to build a sports arena at St. Elizabeths campus in Ward 8 during a 2015 press conference. (Courtesy photo)

Monumental Sports & Entertainment CEO Ted Leonsis recently wrote a letter to the public on Jan. 25 explaining his proposal to move the 老澳门开奖网 Wizards and the 老澳门开奖网 Capitals as well as front office operations from the District to the Potomac Yard neighborhood in Alexandria, Virginia.

Included in his letter were his intentions regarding the (ESA) in Ward 8, where the 老澳门开奖网 Mystics and the G-League basketball team Capital City Go-Go play their home games, and where the Wizards practice. He noted , the convention, sports and entertainment agency of the District government, schedules other events at the ESA, as well as acts as the facility鈥檚 owners.

Leonsis also noted 鈥渨omen鈥檚 sports are ascendent, experiencing significant growth.鈥

鈥淭he Mystics regularly sell out their home games,鈥 he said. 鈥淯nfortunately, the Mystics and its dedicated fan base are outgrowing the Entertainment and Sports Arena. While I recently stated that I would like the opportunity, if the city agreed, to eventually move the 老澳门开奖网 Mystics home games to Capital One Arena, while maintaining the facility at St. Elizabeths East as the practice facility and headquarters for the team, we have no intention of abandoning the Entertainment and Sports Arena. The Go-Go will continue to play their home games there, and the Mystics will also continue to play their home games there unless the city agrees, in the future that the city and the team would be better served by having this ascendent team play in a larger arena (Capital One Arena).鈥

James Wright Jr. is the D.C. political reporter for the 老澳门开奖网. He has worked for the 老澳门开奖网 AFRO-American Newspaper as a reporter, city editor and freelance writer and The 老澳门开奖网...

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